The Soviet Cuban Missile Crisis : Castro, Mikoyan, Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Missiles of November / Sergo Mikoyan ; edited by Svetlana Savranskaya.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mikoyan, Sergo, author.

Contributor:

Savranskaya, Svetlana, editor.

Series:

Cold War International History Project

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Diplomatic relations.

Cuba.

Soviet Union.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (616 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2012.

Summary:

Based on secret transcripts of top-level diplomacy undertaken by the number-two Soviet leader, Anastas Mikoyan, to settle the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962, this book rewrites conventional history. The "missiles of October" and "13 days" were only half the story: the nuclear crisis actually stretched well into November 1962 as the Soviets secretly planned to leave behind in Cuba over 100 tactical nuclear weapons, then reversed themselves because of obstreperous behavior by Fidel Castro. The highly-charged negotiations with the Cuban leadership, who bitterly felt sold out by Soviet concessions to the United States, were led by Mikoyan. Adding personal crisis, Mikoyan's wife of more than 40 years died the day he arrived in Havana, yet he stayed to resolve the crisis through direct talks in Havana, New York, and Washington, amid constant communications with Moscow. The author, Sergo Mikoyan, who served as his father's personal secretary during these travels, vividly recalls how the Soviet relationship with revolutionary Cuba began and how it was shaped by the crisis.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Documents

Series Preface

Editor’s Preface and Acknowledgments

Frequently Used Abbreviations

Introduction: The Overlooked Crisis between Moscow and Havana

1 Why Mikoyan?

2 The Journey across the Ocean: The Soviet Discovery of Cuba

3 Ten Days That Changed the Face of the Hemisphere

4 The Leap Over the Ocean

5 Operation Anadyr: Military Success, Political Trap

6 When the World Was Hanging by a Thread

7 Storm Clouds Over Havana

8 Mikoyan Face to Face with Fidel

9 Drawing Conclusions in the United States

Drawing Conclusions in the United States

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based on: online resource; title from PDF information screen (De Gruyter, viewed November 30, 2022).

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-5036-2731-4

OCLC:

1312725916